LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Thirty-six-year-old Peter Matt Speziale prefers to sell drugs in public places, going so far as to brazenly peddle his poison inside a retail store, according to police.

Speziale sold drugs to a confidential informant on April 11, meeting the informant at the U.S. Postal Office on South Street, according to the affidavit. Speziale was inside the post office, and instructed the buyer to get into his car with his girlfriend, according to police. He sold the drugs when he returned to his car, the affidavit states.

During an April 20 drug deal, Speziale had the buyer meet him inside a retail store on Shenandoah Drive. As Speziale and the informant meandered around the store, Speziale motioned for the buyer to look at a specific shirt. Inside the pocket of that shirt, the informant found the drugs he arranged to buy, according to police.

After the informant had the drug, he exchanged money with Speziale inside the store, according to the affidavit.

Those charges are dealing heroin, two counts of possession of heroin, two counts of dealing methamphetamine and two counts of possession of meth.

Christine Marie Surface(Photo: Provided/Tippecanoe County Jail)

When police arrested Speziale, they also arrested 25-year-old Christine Marie Surface, who was with him at the time. She faces preliminary charges of possession of heroin, possession of meth, possession of a legend drug and possession of a syringe, according to a news release published Monday.

Speziale and Surface remained incarcerated at the Tippecanoe County Jail in lieu of bond, according to online records.